In order to effectively use machine learning algorithms, e.g., neural networks, for the analysis of survival data, the correct treatment of censored data is crucial. The concordan...
Internet users regularly have the need to find biographies and facts of people of interest. Wikipedia has become the first stop for celebrity biographies and facts. However, Wik...
Xiaojiang Liu, Zaiqing Nie, Nenghai Yu, Ji-Rong We...
We consider a set of views stating possibly conflicting facts. Negative facts in the views may come, e.g., from functional dependencies in the underlying database schema. We want ...
Entity Resolution (ER) is an important real world problem that has attracted significant research interest over the past few years. It deals with determining which object descript...
Zhaoqi Chen, Dmitri V. Kalashnikov, Sharad Mehrotr...
The blogosphere has unique structural and temporal properties since blogs are typically used as communication media among human individuals. In this paper, we propose a novel tech...